Cold War Transfer: architecture and planning from socialist countries in the 'Third World'Introduction: the 'Second World's'architecture and planning in the 'Third World'

摘要

This themed issue of The Journal of Architecture focuses on what appears to be a major blind-spot of current architectural historiography of the postwar period: the transfer of architecture and planning from socialist countries to Africa, the Middle East and Asia during the Cold War. The papers gathered in this volume convey this theme by discussing the dissemination of Soviet, East-German and Polish urban models to Tanzania, Afghanistan and Iraq; Bulgarian and Romanian building activities in Africa; the paths of the architect Charles Polonyi crossing the 'peripheries': whether in his native Hungary or in Africa; and exhibitions in and about Africa prepared by the two Germanies divided by the Berlin Wall.